Engineer Software

ADITYA KURVE

http://www.personal.psu.edu/ack***

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OBJECTIVE Seeking internship position for Summer 2012 and full-time position starting Jan 2013.

EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

Doctorate in Electrical Engineering (Expected in Dec 2012) GPA 3.78

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2009 to 2011) GPA 3.78

University of Pune, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics (2002 to 2006)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

AREAS OF INTEREST :

Distributed Systems Algorithm Design Reputation Systems Game Theory

Social Networks Optimization Networking Communication Systems

Sybil Detection in P2P and Social Networks

Aditya Kurve and George Kesidis, Sybil Detection via Distributed Sparse Cut

Monitoring, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications,

ICC'11, Kyoto, Japan, June 2011.

Unsupervised Inference Schemes for Crowdsourcing

George Kesidis and Aditya Kurve, A Study of Unsupervised Adaptive

Crowdsourcing, to appear in Proc. IEEE International Conference on

Communications, ICC'12, Ottawa, June 2012.

Aditya Kurve, David Miller and George Kesidis, Objecive-based Approach to

Unsupervised Inference Schemes for Crowdsourcing, in preparation.

Inferring Community Structures in Social Networks

In progress. This project involves experimental analysis and implementation of

search mechanisms for inference of community structure via keyword search in

distributed social networking platform Diaspora. Involves hands on experience with

Ruby on Rails.

Game Theoretic Approach for Load Balancing in Distributed Systems

Aditya Kurve, Christopher Griffin and George Kesidis, Iterative

Partitioning Scheme for Distributed Simulation of Dynamic Networks,

Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling,

Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), Kyoto,

Japan, June 2011.

Aditya Kurve, Christopher Griffin and George Kesidis, A Graph Partitioning Game

for Distributed Simulation of Networks, Proc. International Workshop on modeling,

analysis and control of complex networks (CNET), San Francisco, USA, September

2011.

Aditya Kurve, Christopher Griffin, David Miller and George Kesidis, Game

Theoretic Iterative Partitioning for Dynamic Load Balancing in Distributed

Network Simulation, submitted to ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer

Simulation (TOMACS), October 2011.

Distributed Capacity Reallocation of Probabilistic Network Model

Aditya Kurve, Guodong Pang, George Kesidis and Gustavo De Veciana,

Decentralized Capacity Reallocation for a Loss Network, to appear in Proc.

Conference on Information Science and Systems, Princeton, Invited Paper in

Optimization of Communication Networks.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dec 2008 to Jul 2009

SASKEN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, Pune .

Embedded Software Engineer

Worked on Board Support Library for PNX1005 media processing SOC.

Automated software testing using Perl script.

Prepared ramp up training plan and presentations for fresh recruits.

Jun 2006 to Nov 2007

CONEXANT SYSTEMS Inc, Pune.

Hardware Design Engineer

Front end VLSI Design and functional verification.

Worked on baseband PHY processor for 802.11n solution.

Analyzed algorithms for pilot processor and stream parser and implemented in

Verilog.

Nov 2007 to Dec 2008

SASKEN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES, Pune .

Hardware Verification Engineer

Verification Of Mixed Signal SOC MSP430.

RTL and gate level verification of Frequency Locked Loop, Real Time Clock, Basic

Timer and I/O Ports.

COURSEWORK

Software Engineering, Data Structures, Neural Networks and Machine Learning,

Nonlinear Programming, Dynamic Programming, Game Theory, Probability, Operating

Systems, Digital Architecture, Linear Control Systems, Digital Communication

Systems, Wireless Communication, Information Theory, Digital Signal Processing.

TOOLS

C, NetLogo, Matlab, VHDL, Verilog, assembly language (MSP430

Family), Simvision, Synopsis Design Compiler, Cross Studio.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND HONORS

Sasken Team of the Quarter Award: Apr-Jun 2008 for outstanding customer

satisfaction.

Served as the President of Penn State Vedic Society Aug-Dec 2011.

REFERENCES Available upon request.

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